Exercise Keeps Heart Healthy into Senior Years

Reporting from the Washington University School of Medicine, in St. Louis, Missouri, Pablo F. Soto, MD, says older hearts can work like younger hearts when training at the endurance level of physical activity.

Soto’s research team enlisted six men and six women to test the cardiovascular effect of endurance training on the aging heart.  All study participants were between 60 and 75 years of age.  All reported a sedentary lifestyle although none of the study participants was obese.  A physical trainer guided each study participant through eleven months of endurance exercise, with his or her vital statistics measured throughout the study. Read more